Amazon Nokia N9 pre-order delivers it on September 23rd

Amazon promises that they will deliver all orders for Nokia N9 on September 23rd. They have listed all colors - black, cyan and magenta.


Unfortunately, Amazon didn't put price for Nokia N9, but it will probably be about 592.99€ as priced on Mobile Fun.

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Nokia N9 is arriving this month to Singapore

Good news for everyone in Singapore. Cnet confirmed that Nokia N9 is arriving this month to Singapore for a price of $799 SGD for 16GB version and $899 SGD for 64GB version without operator contracts. This is $661 USD for 16GB version and $743 USD for 64GB version model.


"In talk with Cnet – Nokia also confirms that the N9 will be made available to the rest of Asia, but did not disclose the availability date and the prices." 

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Nokia confirmed that Nokia N9 will not come to United States

Bad news for Americans: Nokia N9 will not be available for buying in United States.


"After the very positive reception to the launch of the Nokia N9, the product is now being rolled out in countries around the world. At this time we will not be making it available in the US. Nokia takes a market by market approach to product rollout, and each country makes its own decisions about which products to introduce from those available. Decisions are based on an assessment of existing and upcoming products that make up Nokia’s extensive product portfolio and the best way in which to address local market opportunities."


Probably many Americans will be disapointed by this decision, but they can still buy Nokia N9 online from websites like ebay or amazon.

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Nokia N9 will cost £519.95 on Mobile Fun in United Kingdom

Nokia N9 is available for pre-order in UK website Mobile Fun for £519.95 or 592.99€. Price includes 20% VAT.
Handset is covered by a full 24 month manufacturer's warranty.

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Video Samples of Nokia N9 Recording 720p with Continuous Autofocus

As you know, Nokia N9 have camera with continuous autofocus. Bellow are some videos in 720p recorded with continuous autofocus.

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Nokia N9 camera in action

Watch the Nokia N9 camera in action in videos bellow. In first video you can see 8MP Carl Zeiss camera lens is use while recording video and taking pictures. The camera resolution measures: 3248 x 2448 pixels for 4:3 ratio, 3248 x 2160 for 3:2 and 3552 x 2000 for 16:9. There’s digital zoom up to four times and the camera focus range is from 10 cm to infinity.

In second video you can see HD video recorded with Nokia N9.

The video recording frame rate of N9 is 30 fps. There’s the continuous auto focus, geotagging, dual-LED flash, automatic motion blur reduction, face detection and exposure settings of various types. 

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Nokia N9's camera isn't fastest?

When Nokia released Nokia N9, they said that N9 will have fastest camera in mobile world, which is 2.6 seconds.
HTC wouldn't agree with that.  In video bellow you can see that HTC Sensation needs only 2.39 seconds in first try, and 2.21 seconds in second try to take successful photo. We can see that HTC is working hard on improving their cameras. As Nokia always had best cameras at market, this is not good news for them.

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Nokia N9 Maps and Drive

Here are some pictures of Maps and Drive on Nokia N9. As you can see on the pictures bellow, there is a search option where you can search for different locations, as your current location is shown when you load up Nokia Maps first time.
Of course, there are options to search through categories for things like transports, shops, companies, objects, food and drink, museums, etc.
If you want car navigation, then there is Drive, Nokia separate application used for car navigation.
So, Maps will find places where you want to go, and Drive will take you there.

Watch pictures gallery bellow:
Maps:

Drive:

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Download Opera Mobile 11 for MeeGo Nokia N9

Opera have released Opera Mobile 11 for Maemo, MeeGo and Windows mobile phones, which include Nokia N9.


Take a look what is new on Opera Mobile 11:
Features

• Modernized new user interface
• New UI optimized for tablet devices
• Faster framerates when panning and zooming
• No checkerboard, ever
• Text stays sharp during zooming
• Improved text-wrap on zoom
• Smart-tap, auto-zoom and highlights links if ambiguous link click
• Incremental zooming for devices w/o multi-touch
• Buttons for jumping to the top/bottom of the page
• Haptic feedback (if supported in hardware)
• Share URL on social networks, email etc
• Improved Geolocation support
• Session restore

Rendering

• Presto 2.7.81
• JIT for greatly improved Javascript performance (was supported in 10.1 on some Symbian devices)
• Adobe Flash support (Android only, Flash player available separately in Android Market)
• Click-to-play, load Flash content on demand only
• Application Cache
• WebStorage and WebDatabase
• DOM touch and multi-touch events
• HTML5 Audio/Video
• Support for CSS @viewport
• Improved support for meta viewport
• Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
• Support for Arabic ligatures
• Improved form fields skin

Symbian specific

• Support native clipboard on Symbian 5th ed and Symbian^3
• Support for half-screen keyboard on Symbian^3 phones
• Added Thai, Hebrew and Arabic fonts
• Added localization for Malay language (APAC build)

MeeGo (Nokia N9) users can download Opera Mobile 11 by visiting labs.opera.com.

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Nokia N9 browser - What it brings

Nokia N9 browser will come with support for HTML5 video and CSS 3D. Tests have shown that the speed of N9's browser is even better than the speed of some desktop browsers.


Unfortunately, and this Nokia will not have support for Flash. Some people will miss that, but on the side, 
there are many websites that deliver video content through HTML5.
Here is a full list of browser technologies: 
- CSS 3
- DOM Level 3
- HTML over TCP/IP
- HTML5
- Javascript 1.8
- Webkit 2 based
- XHTML
- XML

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